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ORLANDO, Fla. The season for severe weather is here, so lets get prepared by brushing up on our weather lingo. Does one indicate a more severe weather pattern than the other? Warning: issued when a hazardous weather or hydrologic event is occurring, is imminent, or has a very high probability of occurring. Lets break down some of the watches and warnings Floridians tend to see. Both watches and warnings of any kind are used to make people aware, not alarmed.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – A Miami Gardens man has been arrested after threatening to kill a Florida lawmaker, police said. Miami-Dade police said Steve St. Felix tagged Florida Rep. Jose Felix Diaz, R-Miami, on a threatening Facebook post Sunday. The Facebook post read, "I'll kill your ass and you better not show up to the next rec meeting." Diaz told police that, because of recent attacks on government officials, he was in fear for his life and the safety of his family. St. Felix was being held on a $500,000 bond at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.

VERO BEACH, Fla. – A Florida woman is accused of abandoning her 2-year-old son in a restaurant parking lot after she unsuccessfully tried to give him to strangers, police said. Amber Warner, 31, approached a couple as they were leaving the Kountry Kitchen in Vero Beach and tried to get them to take her son, who she was carrying, Vero Beach police said. Warner told the couple, "I can't do it," and then put the boy on the ground before driving away in a black truck, police said. Warner faces charges of unlawful desertion of a child and resisting arrest without violence. Her 2-year-old son appeared to be in good health and was placed in the custody of the Florida Department of Children and Families.

MIAMI – A Miami-Dade County man whose green hair and face tattoos resemble the look of Batman's nemesis the Joker was arrested Tuesday after pointing a gun at passing vehicles, police said. According to a Miami-Dade police report, police were alerted about a man with green hair and tattoos on his face standing at the corner of Southwest 104th Street and Hammocks Boulevard, pointing a gun at passing vehicles. When the officer asked the man, later identified as Sullivan, if he was armed, Sullivan said he had a gun in his pocket, police said. Lawrence Sullivan's green hair and facial tattoos are reminiscent of Batman's nemesis the Joker. Among the man's face tattoos are the words "Joker" stenciled across his forehead, next to a Batman logo with profanity scribbled within it.